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Then, with no warning, a powerful wind. Flaming embers were shooting down from the sky. And suddenly, firebrands start falling out of the sky, and they’re in trouble.
Within minutes, the town of Wallace was ablaze. Townspeople fled their homes. The wind and the flames were overwhelming.
The air so hot, it was hard to breathe. When the fire ended, 86 lives and 3 million acres of forest had been lost. After all the late nights and all the long weekends, on June 4th, 1896, Henry Ford drove his horseless carriage along the cobblestone streets of Detroit for the first time.
One of his friends ran ahead to warn pedestrians out of the way, because the rickety vehicle had a top speed of 20 miles per hour. But it didn’t have any brakes. Coming up next, if it’s dipped in batter and dropped in hot oil, chances are we’re going to love it.
Deep fried pies, brownies, mac and cheese, and a New York City shop that’ll fry anything. You name it, and we’ll fry it. Well, just about anything.
By 1935, just a year after the deaths of Bonnie and Clyde, all the Depression-era gangsters had been eradicated by FBI G-men. Bonnie and Clyde may have been the first to go down, but their story overshadowed all the rest. Not for their crimes, or even their violent end, but for their enduring true romance.
When Hall of Famer Shannon Sharp came into the NFL, it seemed he had a case of the terrible twos. Too small to be a tight end, and too slow to be a receiver. But it turned out the scouts had it all backwards.
Well, I did a lot of my blocking on the moves because I was so small. He shimmied, shook, and shoved his way to an outstanding career. He was frozen inside a glacier for over 5,000 years, and now, carefully preserved, lies in this refrigerated chamber.
He’s known as the Iceman, a frozen relic of the Stone Age, a messenger from the past, bearing secrets of a time thousands of years before the pyramids.